Caught red handed!
[UPDATED] Woohoo! I am excited. I was checking my e-mail and got an email from Bank of America that there was another fraud alert on my credit card (as you might imagine I am very careful but for some...
View ArticleAnother trip to Seattle
Well I'm going again.. one of my best friends works at Microsoft over in Boston and finally found a training class to give him an excuse to come out to Seattle - his last trip was about four years ago....
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Public cloud will grow when I die
El Reg a few days ago posted some commentary from the CTO of Rackspace Major adoption of public cloud computing services by large companies won't happen until the current crop of IT workers are...
View ArticleUpgraded to 64-bit Debian
Just a quick note -- I am in the midst of upgrading this server from 32-bit Debian to 64-bit. I really didn't think I needed 64-bit, but as time as gone on the processes on this system seem to have...
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Opscode Chef folks still have a lot to learn
The theme for this post is: BASIC STUFF. This is not rocket science. A while back I wrote a post (wow has it really been over a year since that post!) about Chef and my experience with it for what was...
View ArticleInflux of SPAM – batton down the hatches!
I don't know what is going on but for some reason this blog has been getting a lot more SPAM comments recently. I mean normally Akismet takes care of everything and MAYBE one gets through a MONTH,...
View ArticleLost almost all respect for Consumer Reports today
I was getting my morning dose of CNBC this morning(I'm not an investor - I watch CNBC purely for entertainment purposes) when news came over the wire that Tesla had gotten a 99/100 rating on their...
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Activist investors and not wanting to be public
Another somewhat off topic post but still kinda tech related. There has been somewhat of a rash of companies the past few years that say they either don't want to go public or some that already are...
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Break out the bubbly, 100k SPAM comments
It seems we crossed the 100k spam comments blocked by Akismet mark. (see right side of the page) Saved for history: crossing the 100k comment spam marker That is just insane. 100k. I don't even know...
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Real life Sim City
[WARNING: Non technical content directly ahead] I've looked at Google maps a lot over the years, but don't remember ever seeing something quite like this. I played tons of Sim City many years ago and...
View ArticleOpscode is learning
A few months ago I wrote a long rant on how Opscode has a lot to learn about running operations. Problems included: status.opscode.com site returning broken HTTP Location headers which broke standards...
View ArticleThe Myth of online backup and the future of my mobility
I came across this article on LinkedIn which I found very interesting. The scenario given by the article was a professional photographer had 500GB of data to backup and they decided to try Carbonite to...
View ArticleYahoo! yanks! website! of! person! who! documented! his! suicide!
The only thing technical related to this is the fact that Yahoo! yanked the guy's site. I suppose I can understand why, but I am very glad that the site(at least for the moment) lives on at a mirror. I...
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More IPv6 funnies…
Random, off topic, boring post but I felt compelled to write it after reading a fairly absurd comment on slashdot from another hard core IPv6 fan. Internet hippies at it again! I put the original...
View ArticleThe world is ending: overreactions to outages
Paraphrasing from CNBC yesterday: OMG!! CARL ICHAN IS TWEETERING ABOUT APPLE -- NASDAQ IS DOWN -- PEOPLE CAN'T TRADE ON THIS NEWS!! Let me preface this a bit further and say in the line of work that I...
View ArticleRIP Blackberry – Android is the Windows of the mobile world
You can certainly count me as in the camp of folks that believed RIM/Blackberry had a chance to come back. However more recently I no longer feel this is possible. While the news today of Blackberry...
View ArticleTake a number: how to fix healthcare.gov
Sorry for slackin off recently, there just hasn't been a whole lot out there that has gotten me fired up. Not too long ago I ranted a bit about outages. Basically saying if your site is down for a few...
View ArticleFacebook going in strong with Vertica
Came across this job post yesterday, thought it was interesting, somewhat on the heels of Facebook becoming a Vertica customer. I still find it interesting at least given Facebook's history of in house...
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From WebOS to Android: first 30 days
So as all 9 readers of my blog know I have been a long time WebOS user. Really it was my first real smart phone back in 2009 the Palm Pre. The first and only Palm branded product I have ever owned...
View ArticleGo Seahawks!
Go Seahawks! I'm not one for sports really, though I did get interested in NFL back when Seattle first went to the Superbowl in 2005/2006(despite my father being pretty hard core into 49ers and...
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